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...waters between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 30) acted like a blood transfusion in reviving the League of Nations; 2) the British display of readiness last week to consider dismemberment of Ethiopia as a possible and perhaps desirable solution was to the League of Nations like the bloodsucking caress of a vampire...
Cinema celebrities in Los Angeles and Hollywood, where Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable and Al Jolson play the races even more assiduously than most of their profession, are likely to patronize Zeke Caress. He made future books this year on the Agua Caliente Derby and Santa Anita Handicap, readily takes bets...
Obviously, therefore, the solution of substituting a general survey course of all the sciences would completely miss the mark. It would be like suggesting that all who have not been aroused by the "precise caress" of history should be excused from history courses and allowed to read H. G. Wells and study his "kulturgeschichte." There is already enough general and inaccurate "cultural" knowledge in America, and our national fondness for cyclopedias and bibliographies is ample proof of this discouraging tendency. The real error in the editorial, however, is the assumption that a course in the history of science and learning...
While a knowledge of scientific methods is obviously a necessary element in education for modern life, this does not imply that one need have a zealot's interest in test-tubes and formulas, stresses and strains. For those whose passions are not aroused by the precise caress of the scientific goddess, little is gained by the manipulation of complex gadgets in the laboratory. A study of the history and philosophy of science would be for them far more significant...
Giddily, the Memorial Hall Clock let the wind caress her early yesterday morning in a manner reminiscent of her poignant Civil War days. But the ardor of her lusty suitor sent blood to one of her four faces so rapidly that it lost all sense of time...